#others

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#both #brave #close #contrary #culture

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#damage #disorder #encourage #encouraging #gained

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#knowledge #light #others #their #you

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#search #their #vices #virtue #your

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#breaks #bridge #cannot #every #every man

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#defect #depends #grasping #judgment #many

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. ↗

— Mary Garden

#being #buildings #children #evil #hence

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. ↗

— Mary Garden

#block #excuse #had #i #illness

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters. ↗

— Richard Gere

#possibility #save #saving #sisters #tibet